Ok, everybody's addressed the "... to the same place" aspect
of this question to death. But nobody has really addressed the
"return ..." aspect of the question, so here goes:
Why reinvent the wheel? Instruct your users to install "SwitchHack"
(which requires HackMaster, of course). It grants the capability
of returning to the previous application with a single stroke (and
to any of the last 10 with a stroke & a tap).
http://www.deskfree.com/SwitchHack.html
(not directly involved with SwitchHack, just a satisfied customer)
--
-Richard M. Hartman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elia J. Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 8:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Return to where I was...
>
>
> The user would have to relaunch your application, unless you
> wrote a hack
> (like pop-up calc) that did this for you. So instead of launching the
> calculator, it would just pop-up in your application. As for
> the first part
> about remembering where they were, you are exactly right.
> Elia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaolin Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 8:00 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Return to where I was...
>
>
> So you basicly saying that I have to remember where I was and upon
> relaunched
> find my way back to the screen and reload the record. Given
> the complicity
> of
> my application as it is now, I still think it is impossible
> to make this
> feature work
> absolutely "anywhere", but I can try it for a few main
> screens, see if it
> will satisfy
> my user.
> Just to make sure that I understand you right, my user still
> have to close
> the
> "Calculator" and relaunch my application, there is no way to
> simply "return"
> to my
> application (at least from user's point of view).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elia J. Freedman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 10:39 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Return to where I was...
> >
> > You would have to save a preference that says they were on
> the edit screen
> > and than have your application handle that. The memo pad
> does it -- if you
> > open a record, switch to another app, and than return to
> the memo pad app,
> > you will return to the record you left open.
> >
> > Elia
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shaolin Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 7:31 AM
> > To: 'Palm Developer's Forum'
> > Subject: Return to where I was...
> >
> >
> > If user press a key that launches a standard palm
> appliction, say, the
> > calculator, from within my application.
> > Is there a way I can make it to return to my application at
> exactly where
> > they left off.
> > I have been asked several times by my users to have this
> feature and I
> > have
> > been telling them
> > it is impossible, am I right? Thanks.
> > Shaolin Hu
> >
> >
>
>
>
